12/9/2001: Officers responded to reports of an armed robbery of Village Inn Restaurant at Southeast 103rd Avenue and Stark Street. Officers stopped Cromb on a bicycle and asked to pat him down; Cromb fled and eventually pulled out what looked like a gun, at which point the officers both shot at him. Cromb died of a single gunshot wound; police found an inoperable pellet gun at his side. http://www.portlandoregon.gov/police/pbnotify.cfm?action=ViewContent&content_id=109